Why choose acupuncture?
It is painless, relaxing and tackles ill health in a different way to conventional medicine.
Current advertising standard agency guidelines state that acupuncture may be adveritsed as useful for dental pain, osteoarthritis of the knee and post operative nausea.
The NHS also recognises it for chronic back pain, pain and discomfort during gastrointestinal endoscopy, headache, pain and discomfort during oocyte retrieval (a procedure used during IVF).
Research in the British Medical Journal publication Acupuncture in Medicine has in the last year alone reported trials that show the usefulness of acupuncture in treating menopausal symptoms, reducing crying in babies with colic, pregnancy outcomes follwing IVF when infertility is idiopathic, sleep apnoea and facial paralysis.
The BAcC issued a series of fact sheets about the uses of acupuncture which include addiction, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, hayfever, heart disease, gynaecology, infertility, menopause, migraine and Sports injury
The World Health Organisation also issued a document summarising the uses of acupuncture which can be found here and discusses the evidence for many disorders including pain, headaches, strokes, Bell's palsy, insomnia, prostatitis, renal colic, urinary retention, dysmehoorhoea, PMS and hypertension.
In China acupuncture is used for a wide range of problems treating them as in or outpatients in hospitals dedicated to traditional and conventional medicine; just as it is in many other countries around the world.
Please call or email if you would like to ask whether acupuncture may be able to help you.